Kimono with pattern imitating glaze dripping down the side of a jar (Kamedare mon kimono)
1961
- Medium
- stencil-dyed banana-bark cloth, (abaca)
- Measurements
- 155.0 × 130.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Japan
- Accession Number
- 2015.408
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Allan Myers AO and Maria Myers AO, 2015
© Serizawa Keiko - Gallery location
- Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International - About this work
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Serizawa Keisuke is one of the most important Japanese textile artists of the twentieth century, and a leading member of the Mingei arts and crafts movement founded by Yanagi Sōetsu in the 1930s. Serizawa is celebrated for his use of the kataezome (stencil-dyeing) technique applied to an Okinawan-style fabric made from abaca banana-leaf fibre. The dynamic pattern on this work was produced using two stencils and four colours. The inspiration for the simple shapes is glaze dripping down the side of a ceramic jar – a feature of historical wabi-sabi-style ceramics. In 1956 Keisuke was designated as a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government.